Kushan Mystique is in part a personal narrative, and in part a profile of people and places encountered as a result of David Jongeward's Kushan research and travels.

David Jongeward is an independent cultural historian and a departmental associate with the Royal Ontario Museum, Department of World Cultures, Toronto, Canada. He was visiting scholar from 2005 to 2013 with the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. His most recent project is a catalog of the Gandhara sculpture collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, forthcoming in 2015. He coordinated and coauthored an interdisciplinary collaborative research project: Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries, published in 2012.